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Said By Chaotic Psycho

Oh, sounds pretty cool. Is it a spooky game? Like freak you out of your wits? I don't know want to get random nightmares over a game, which is what I'd probably do at some point. xD

It's survival-horror so...yes XD While I don't personally find them scary (I'm one of those weird people who find gore and dilapidated buildings interesting, so that might be why), most people do. It's very psychological so while it's less 'jump out and go BOO' than Resident Evil, it does pretty well instilling fear with a sense of a restrictive environment, music and silence as a sound, and morbid imagery. It's somewhat dated, though, so the monsters are obviously pixelated. But you can only play the game with tank controls (you have to press forward to move, and the left and right to turn - whereas with 2D controls if you press right, you go right) which restricts movement.

Anyway, yes it's scary. But that's what makes it great.

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On Feb. 6, when the Senate held hearings on the issue of prosecutorial independence, former judiciary committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., proudly claimed to have been as clueless as the rest of us. Denying New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer's claim that he or his staff had "slipped the new provision into the Patriot Act in the dead of night," Specter asserted, "The first I found out about the change in the Patriot Act occurred a few weeks ago when Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein approached me on the floor." Specter added that he only looked into how the provision was altered after Feinstein told him about it. As he explained, "I then contacted my very able chief counsel, Michael O'Neill, to find out exactly what had happened. And Mr. O'Neill advised me that the requested change had come from the Department of Justice, that it had been handled by Brett Tolman, who is now the U.S. attorney for Utah, and that the change had been requested by the Department of Justice because there had been difficulty with the replacement of a U.S. attorney in South Dakota."

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Said By Bomb

horribly i dont think i've lasted even one full day yet :/

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Thanks to back-to-back, fall-season releases of three next-generation video game consoles--Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2005, Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 in 2006--the industry no longer needs to use GDC to hype the eventual emergence of those machines. The era of the development for consoles is maturing. And in that context, the theme of this year's GDC is "taking control." To Moledina, that means two things. First, it's a literal reference to the new era of game console input devices, such as the Wii remote and the PS3's Sixaxis motion-sensitive controller.